Re: sane and iscan and rpm

From: foamy (flipal_at_woil1093.com)
Date: 11/08/04 

Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 20:47:15 -0500

On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 20:10:13 -0500, Allan wrote:

> I am not a programmer and am far too old to start now, so I'm hoping some of
> you younger folk will bear with me.
>
> I made the mistake of buying an Epson Perfection 1250 Photo scanner a year
> and a half ago without checking if it would run under Linux. Of course I
> had to pick the only Epson scanner which was not supported at the time.
> Fortunately, I heard of a program called iscan put out by Epson and was
> away to the races, so to speak.
>
> On upgrading from 9.0 to 9.1, I found that iscan would no longer work.
> Checking on the Epson site, I found a newer version of Iscan which however
> wouldn't load because of broken dependencies - it wants sane-backends which
> I think is the way sane is now configured. If I install Iscan with
> --nodeps, it works. However, every time I run apt-get (or rather synaptic)
> Iscan is automatilly uninstalled because of the broken dependency.
>
>
> So I obtained the latest sane-backends source from the sane site, compiled
> and installed it. But Iscan still can't find it since it's installed from
> a tarball rather than an rpm file. I then tried to compile Iscan from the
> source file but found it wouldn't because of missing gnome dependencies.
>
> So I then downloaded the 9.2 sane source file from a SuSE mirror site and
> tried compiling that. Of course that didn't work because of failed
> dependencies including X.org.
>
> So I have two questions for you experts. One, is it possible easily to
> convert a tarball to an rpm file? Two, if I rename the sane.rpm file to
> sane-backends.rpm and install that file, under which name will it be
> recognized by Iscan and apt-get? Maybe there's a third question. Is it
> possible to fool rpm into recognizing a tarball install?
>
> By the way, obtaining an answer is not of earth shattering importance since
> my scanner is now supported by sane though there are apparently still some
> problems with scanning transparencies.
>
> Any help greatly appreciated and many thanks offered in advance for
> suggestions.

Great scanner!
I have one and it works perfectly, with Windows XP of course.
Took five minutes to install and I was up and scanning.
I would strongly suggest that you take all the money you could have earned
at Walmart as a greeter and buy yourself a copy of Windows XP and be done
with it.
Even at the $6.00 /hr you might be earning at Walmart, the many hours you
have wasted trying to make Linux work would have netted you a copy of
Windows XP.
foamy 

-- 
"Linux is free as long as your time is also".

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